A Facebook user who wrongly identified one of the Boston bombers, pleads innocent. "It's not my fault, I'm not a journalist!" So what are your responsibilities on Facebook when you've got 300,000 followers? When does a Facebook update become journalism?

I'm often asked how to verify the authenticity of video and pictures on social media. This is a first-class explanation of how traditional journalistic techniques were employed to authenticate a video apparently shot at the scene of the Boston bombings.

Seattle’s is a technologically progressive city in more ways than one. Sure, we have Microsoft and Amazon and T-Mobile and many, many others, but we also have a growing subculture of hobbyist drone operators. You’ve undoubtedly heard about Amazon’s delivery-by-drone plans, but the airways of Seattle are cluttered with more [...]

Despite being at loggerheads most of the time, Google and Twitter have agreed to hold hands when it comes to Google's Crisis Response service on Google+. Whenever there's a serious natural disaster taking place Twitter will now send live updates of Google's Public Alerts system, creating a more contextual picture of what's happening.

Nigel Kay's insight:

Google and Twitter working together to give people more relevant local information in a crisis.

On Tuesday GeekMom Patricia had the chance to participate in a small briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate introducing the agency's newest social networking capabilities.

Since social media is primarily community building, it is wise to be transparant and communicate in a timely fashion. You engage with your community during the good and during the bad. This is PR, this is leadership.

"Calgary mayor, Naheed Nenshi, has been actively engaging with his community on Twitter, and the positive sentiment around Mayor Nenshi’s engagement is an outstanding 83%."

I'm always amazed by folks who dismiss the value of social media for emergency management based on the perception that said content is useless for disaster response. In that case, libraries are als...

Nigel Kay's insight:

An experienced advocate of the value of social media in emergencies argues that first responders must develop policies which actively encourage the public to contribute high quality reports from the incident scene.

Twitter and Facebook determined how people got news of the Boston bombings—and how they responded.

Nigel Kay's insight:

There are suggestions that after the explosions mobile phone networks in Boston were either turned off at the request of the police or were simply overwhelmed by the volume of traffic. What's clear is that people at or near the scene were still able to access local wifi networks.

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